Metal Detecting a Lakeshore park YIELDS 6 coins

[metalman2024]

Metal detecting a park not too far from 19th century buildings did not yield 19th century coins unfortunately. All within 3" to 4" of the top of the turf. I seem to dig only the ones that register on my pin-pointer.

I suppose there were two targets that made my GMT detector hum but did not register on my pin-pointer I should have dug them out but did not. They might've been the 19th century coins I was after.

But not a bad bunch of 5 Canadian modern coins and one Chinese coin I think.

 

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[djackson7348]

Thank you for the encouragement and the education, I honestly hear ya, while the benefits would outweigh the work done, a signal yielding a depth of 8" is almost guaranteed to be a coin from the 30s/40s era at least, the very low sound wasn't encouraging enough especially when the location is not too secluded, the calculations in my head included those of 1) human proximity factor 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 as I am calling it along with 2) "what the heck are you doing to the park with an 8" hole and similarly deep" factor and the 3) what-if just aluminum/bottle cap 🍬factor after all that work factor? If you multiply the 3 together, giving each factor my approximate weighting score, say, 30% x 50% x 10% , I got 1.5% encouragement to dig! ; ), I just got to find me more promising and secluded areas that do not have a lot of trash!! It just might be a tall order! The research involved appears daunting.

Treasure will be where people have been.
Where people have been, trash will be.

 

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[oldmxrat]

Congrats on your finds!
I totally disagree with "the older, the deeper"
It hasn't been that way with me at all. I've dug 10 inches to find a clad penny, and in the same park, 10 feet away a walker half at two inches.
That's happened to me many times.
95% of these were down 3" or less. These are from the last two winters in the Vegas area.

 

[sprailroad]

Congrats on your finds!
I totally disagree with "the older, the deeper"
It hasn't been that way with me at all. I've dug 10 inches to find a clad penny, and in the same park, 10 feet away a walker half at two inches.
That's happened to me many times.
95% of these were down 3" or less. These are from the last two winters in the Vegas area.

Not all ground is the same. What you say is very true, where you are. Some areas of the country coins etc. can lie on the surface for years. I very much enjoyed detecting in the dry areas of the Southwest years ago. Found a number of things by "Eyeballing". Other areas? Many things can be 10" deep, and be modern clad. Oldmxrat is correct though. The same has happened to all of us at various times. Goes back to saying, "You just never know".

 

[metalman2024]

Back in 2011 we rented a cottage down the road while we built.
Had unlimited detecting on 3 properties.

Sitting there one day watching the skunk digging my
plugs out.
I soon figured it was the grubs it was after.
So I tossed the grubs away from the plug.
Couple of days later, it did a pass on the plugs.
Went over to where I tossed them, scratched around and had a snack.

nice you raise this issue to ensure that the plug is returned horseshoe-style to mitigate skunk and others having an easier time digging plugs and making the detectorist look bad